Sometimes, I doubt(怀疑) whether there is any love between my parents. Every day they are busy trying to 1 money. They don't act in the romantic(浪漫的) ways that I read in books or I see on TV. They never say, “I love you”. My father has a bad temper(性情, 脾气), and it is 2 for him to be angry in his daily life.

    One day, my mother was sewing a quilt (缝被子). I sat down beside her.

    “Mom, I have a question to ask you.” I said after a while.

    “What?” she asked, still working.

    “Is there 3 between you and Dad?” I asked her 4 a very low voice.

    My mother stopped her work and 5 her head with surprise in her eyes. She didn't answer immediately. Then she bowed(低下) her head and went on sewing(缝).

    I thought I had hurt her. At last my mother said: “Susan, look at this thread(线). Sometimes it appears, but most of the time, it disappears in the quilt. It makes the quilt 6 . If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen anywhere 7 it's really there.”

    I listened carefully but I didn't understand her 8 the next spring. My father suddenly got sick. My mother had to stay with him in the 9 for a month.

    After they got back, she helped my father walk slowly down the road every day. My father had never been so weak. “Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

    “Susan, don't worry about me.” he said gently. “I just like 10 with your mom.”

    Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. Now, I know that love is the thread that holds a family together.

    Do you know the movie（电影）, Kung Fu Yoga? Then you must know Jackie Chen. Jackie Chen is a great movie 1. He is fifty years old, but he 2 very young and healthy, because he 3 many good habits. For example, he does 4 every day, he often runs in the morning and swims in the evening 5 two hours. He goes to bed and gets up 6. He usually gets up at seven o'clock. Then he has a glass of milk and an egg for breakfast. At half past twelve, he has some bread and 7 for lunch. Carrot is his favorite vegetable. He doesn't like chicken. He does a lot of work in the afternoon, so he often eats a big 8 in the evening, like rice and fish. After dinner, he has some fruit. He thinks it's good for his health. He doesn't eat cakes, 9 he doesn't want to be fat. His habits are really 10.

    A young man was a thief. He stole(盗窃) something valuable1a rich man. Some policemen2him and put him into prison. Before he went into prison, he wanted to have a talk with his3.

    His mother went to the police station to visit her son. He said to his mother, I have something to4you, Mum. Bring your5near me. When she did that, he nearly bit off her ear. The policemen were6and they asked him7he did that.

    "I did that because I wanted to punish her," he said. "When I was young, I began stealing small things. I brought them home to her. She never punished8. She always laughed and said, 'You are so lucky. Nobody9you steal them.' It is because of her that I am here today."

    10are the first teacher for children. They must teach their children how to tell right from wrong.

    Susie Sunbeam was not her real name. It was Susan Brown. But everyone called 1 Sunbeam, because she had such a sweet, smiling face. She 2took happiness with her wherever she went. Her grandfather first gave her this 3, and it seemed to fit the little girl so 4 that soon it took the place of her own.

    Even when Susie was a baby, she laughed and smiled from morning till night. No one ever heard her cry unless she was 5 or hurt. When she had learnt to 6, she loved to go around the house and get things for her mother.  7, she helped her as much as she could.

    She loved 8. She would sit by her mother's side for an hour at a time, and ask her many questions. At other times, she would take a new book and read quietly. Susie was always pleasant in her play with other children. She never used a(n) 9 word, but tried to do whatever would make her playmates happy.

    One day, a( n)10little girl with an old worn dress passed by. Susie heard some children teasing and laughing at her. She at once ran out to the gate, and asked the little girl to come11.

    "What are you crying for?" Susie asked. "Because they all 12at me," she said.

    Then Susie took the little girl into the house. She 13 the little girl with kind words, and she gave her one of her own best dresses and a good pair of shoes. This brought real 14 to the poor child, and she thought that Sunbeam was the 15 name for Susan Brown.

    It's 12 o'clock. Mr Bakery goes into a restaurant for a quick 1. "Hi! Can I help you?" a waiter says. "I'd like some French fries, a hamburger and a medium Coke," says the man. "2 else?" asks the waiter. "No," the man answers. "That's all." "For here or to 3?" asks the waiter. "I'll take it away," says the man. The waiter puts the food into a bag. Then the man goes away4 the bag. "Have a nice day," the waiter says.

    The man goes back to his office. He sits down and opens the bag. There is a hamburger, some French fries and a Coke. But there is also some 5in it. "That's the money for my lunch," says the man. He wants to go back to the restaurant 6he doesn't want to get his lunch for free. He is always such a nice man.

    When he gets back to the restaurant, he finds it's7. So he has to wait for half an hour there. When it is his turn, he tells the waiter everything. After hearing the man's 8, the waiter smiles at the man and asks him to wait a minute. Then the waiter 9 the manager (经理) what has happened. The manager thinks the man is 10, so he says to the man, "Sorry. We made a mistake (错误). You are so nice that we decide(决定) to give the food to you as a  reward (作为回报)."